Good old Lycos reinvents itself as a VOD player … or tries to

Good old Lycos reinvents itself as a VOD player … or tries to

Remember Lycos? Of course you do. Remember when you last used the site? Of course you don’t. Perhaps that’s exactly why the company’s taking the site in a new direction: video on demand (VOD) rentals.

Started as a Carnegie Mellon University research project in 1994, Lycos… Continue Reading

Roundup: Visible Measures, Searchles, suits, Jubii, Obama, Kleiner, more

Roundup: Visible Measures, Searchles, suits, Jubii, Obama, Kleiner, more

The latest action:

Grouper sends “cease & desist” letter to Searchles, but it may backfire — Grouper, the online video sharing site now owned by Sony, sends a C&D letter to Searchles to demand it stop taking Grouper videos and placing them in Searchles’ own player skin…. Continue Reading

Lycos’ social software project, Jubii, loses us

Lycos’ social software project, Jubii, loses us

Lycos, the Europe-based portal, just unveiled an effort to bring together its social software technologies — integrating chat, test messaging, file-sharing, storage, mobile communications — into one offering.

It is called Jubii. Eager to try it out, we started the registration process, but were hit… Continue Reading